NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9800M GTS and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800M GTS

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +580%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GTS

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Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Aug 2011

GeForce 9M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

960

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Blackcomb

NB9E-GT1

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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